Okay, I just tried backtesting it but I guess not ... It opens the first set of trades and closes them out but then it doesn't do anything? Oh well, it's not always easy trying to interpret someone else's code.

Gem of an EA needs a slight change

And, if it waited until after the last trade closes, then what? Maybe it will reset after that ... I don't know? Or, if not, will have to figure out what he/she is using as a reset. You might want to try this and see if it works anyway. Basically ...

Gem of an EA needs a slight change

Sounds like you need some sort of latch that suspends trading until count goes back down to zero. This is generally the way I setup my EA's when doing a Close-All. That way it's like starting over from scratch. Plus, if there are any stragglers left ...

Gem of an EA needs a slight change

Are you talking about the indicator hedge option or the "regular" hedge option? Currently I have the indicator setup with its own hedge, and I don't think it's setup to work the other way. I might change it later, but this is the way it is for now. ...

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Fair enough. I just thought he had backtested Toothman's EA (without fully reading the post) and this was a picture of that.

Gem of an EA needs a slight change

No, I think it is closing based upon some equity target or, a certain percentage over break even point. It looks like a grid system with a bit of Martingale, where lot sizes get larger the further out you go.

Gem of an EA needs a slight change

Actually, I just backtested the EA and it's not setting TP or SL values, but is probably based on AccountEquity() or AccountBalance(), or something similar. This is why my fix won't work.

Gem of an EA needs a slight change

I don't know about this other problem, but you can try this to modify TP's. It looks like there's already a TP and SL modification feature in place but, I'm not sure what it's supposed to do? I suspect this is what CodeMeister was referring to. If ...

Gem of an EA needs a slight change

Is it closing the last order first, based upon the TP value? If so, you can set it up to modify all other orders to the same TP value, and that should take care of it.

Gem of an EA needs a slight change

Actually, I was asking how many trades did you plan to make each day?

The author says he made 3240 pips 2009

Well, the Euro is currently up 500 points over its low from last week. If I had stuck it out, I would probably be making money right now. I just wasn't prepared to take the risk ... not after its free fall last December. Oh, I have a demo account ...

I lost money during the huge move

Is this a one time deal or, do you want it to continue placing trades after each order closes? It looks simple enough. The only problem I might have is with incorporating the time, for I haven't done this with an EA before (although I've added ...

The author says he made 3240 pips 2009

And when I become successful at it? I guess you can say join the club. Actually, I have an EA that will yield 500-700% in three months. It's just the major upswings and downswings I can do without. (It can handle a 300 point shift without too ...

I lost money during the huge move

If you have about 20 trades already tied up with a new strategy you're testing (started it on April 27th), there's not much you can do about it, except keep your fingers crossed and try and ride it out. Oh yeah, I don't read the paper. I rarely ...

I lost money during the huge move

Oh well, looks like I just got lucky with the stop and start dates. I tried another set of dates and took two losses almost immediately. However, when I set the timeframe to Daily, the indicator preset to 25, the indicator TP to 15, and set timeouts ...

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Are you still having problems here? Which broker are you using? Currently I'm using IBFX mini account (I found out they will allow you to hedge while backtesting) and I'm not having any difficulties. Oh, since I had such a poor showing on Thursday ...

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Maybe because they're too lazy, and/or feel overwhelmed because they don't have a PhD in economics? While I think there are merits to trading either way (manually or using EA's). Both require their own area of expertise.

I lost money during the huge move

At the rate things are going, we should expect to see it get even more volatile, possibly until everything collapses. I'm still going to continue to trade, however, just not focus so much attention on it, and try to find some other things to do.

I lost money during the huge move

Yeah, I was too busy tinkering with my own EA's rather than pay attention to the trend ... that is, until it was about 400 points down. I was only down about 2% at that point, figuring (or, rather hoping) it would soon reverse or stabilize, but no, ...

I lost money during the huge move

It's still going down. It was down by over 600 points earlier. Crap!

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